Download or read book On the Revolutionary Movement and Mass Work written by Julie de Lima and published by Sison Reader Series. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crisis of the world capitalist system and that of the Philippine ruling system have become worse than in any period after World War II. The US-instigated policies of neoliberal globalization, state terrorism and aggressive war have wrought havoc on the lives of the people and continue to escalate oppression and exploitation. THe Filipino people cannot tolerate their suffering and they are fighting back against imperialism and all reaction. The loss or erosion of livelihoods is the most concrete and widespread impact of the current crisis of the world capitalist system on people's lives, both in the advanced capitalist countries as well as in the underdeveloped countries. Despite recent pronouncements from state officials and the business press that economic recovery is in sight, the global economy continues to tumble with the gross domestic product of the leading capitalist countries still contracting, consumer spending still in decline and unemployment still rising.
Download or read book With Masses and Arms written by Miguel La Serna and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miguel La Serna's gripping history of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) provides vital insight into both the history of modern Peru and the link between political violence and the culture of communications in Latin America. Smaller than the well-known Shining Path but just as remarkable, the MRTA emerged in the early 1980s at the beginning of a long and bloody civil war. Taking a close look at the daily experiences of women and men who fought on both sides of the conflict, this fast-paced narrative explores the intricacies of armed action from the ground up. While carrying out a campaign of urban guerrilla warfare ranging from vandalism to kidnapping and assassinations, the MRTA vied with state forces as both tried to present themselves as most authentically Peruvian. Appropriating colors, banners, names, images, and even historical memories, hand-in-hand with armed combat, the Tupac Amaristas aimed to control public relations because they insightfully believed that success hinged on their ability to control the media narrative. Ultimately, however, the movement lost sight of its original aims, becoming more authoritarian as the war waged on. In this sense, the history of the MRTA is the story of the euphoric draw of armed action and the devastating consequences that result when a political movement succumbs to the whims of its most militant followers.
Download or read book Revolutions a Very Short Introduction written by Jack A. Goldstone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 20th and 21st century revolutions have become more urban, often less violent, but also more frequent and more transformative of the international order. Whether it is the revolutions against Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR; the "color revolutions" across Asia, Europe and North Africa; or the religious revolutions in Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria; today's revolutions are quite different from those of the past. Modern theories of revolution have therefore replaced the older class-based theories with more varied, dynamic, and contingent models of social and political change. This new edition updates the history of revolutions, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Revolution of Dignity in the Ukraine, with attention to the changing types and outcomes of revolutionary struggles. It also presents the latest advances in the theory of revolutions, including the issues of revolutionary waves, revolutionary leadership, international influences, and the likelihood of revolutions to come. This volume provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the nature of revolutions and their role in global history"--
Download or read book The Fourth Industrial Revolution written by Klaus Schwab and published by Currency. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wearable sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manufacturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individuals. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frameworks that advance progress.
Download or read book The State and Revolution written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on Mao Tse tung s Report of an Investigation Into the Peasant Movement in Hunan written by Boda Chen and published by No Pledge Publishing. This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in March 1927, the "Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan" was written by Chairman Mao at a critical moment in the Chinese revolution as a reply to the carping criticism, then being levelled both inside and outside the Party against the peasants' revolutionary struggle and as a firm support for the peasants' rising revolutionary movement. It is a brilliant Marxist-Leninist classic. At the time the First Revolutionary Civil War (1924-27) fought under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party was developing victoriously. The Northern Expeditionary Army, which started its advance from Kwangtung, had marched into the Yangtse valley, occupying half of the country. The workers' and peasants' mass movement developed vigorously. The earthshaking peasants' revolutionary struggle was advancing in a great sweep over the length and breadth of the country, especially in Hunan, the center of the nation's peasant movement, where it rose like a mighty storm, like a swift and violent hurricane. Millions of the peasant masses, overwhelming with force and momentum had shattered the reactionary rule of the feudal landlord class, a great feat never before achieved in thousands of years. Confronted by this excellent situation of fast-moving revolutionary development, the forces of counter-revolution were seized with great panic. They rabidly opposed the Chinese Communist Party, opposed and undermined the peasant movement and suppressed the peasants' revolutionary struggle. While ready to openly strangle the Chinese revolution by force, imperialism was working overtime to foster the Right wing of the Kuomintang headed by Chiang Kai-shek which was hiding in the revolutionary camp. Showing his true colors, Chiang Kai-shek worked in alliance with all the forces of reaction to attack the masses of workers and peasants and by launching a counter-revolutionary massacre tried to smother the revolution. The Right opportunists in the Party, headed by Chen Tu-hsiu, failing to understand the importance of the peasant question and hostile to the peasants' revolutionary struggle which they feared, opposed Chairman Mao's correct line; they practiced capitulationism before the landlord and capitalist classes. Frightened by the counter-revolutionary adverse current of the Kuomintang reactionaries, they dared not support the great peasant movement but instead scurried after the landlord and capitalist classes and loudly attacked the peasant movement as "going too far" and being "terrible". In order to appease the Kuomintang reactionaries, they insisted that the peasants should hand over the rural revolutionary political power and their armed forces to the landlord class. They preferred to desert the peasantry, the chief ally in the revolution, and thus left the working class and the Communist Party isolated and without help and led the revolution on to the road of defeat. In these circumstances and with a view to leading and promoting the peasant movement, saving the revolution and defeating the enemy, Chairman Mao spent thirty-two days personally investigating the situation of the peasant movement in the five counties of Hsiangtan, Hsianghsiang, Hengshan, Liling and Changsha and then summed up the experiences of the peasant movement and wrote "Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan."
Download or read book Anatomy of a Revolutionary Movement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse tung written by Zedong Mao and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the man and the aims of the Cultural Revolution.
Download or read book The Endless War written by James P. Harrison and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Communist International written by Jane Degras and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the year 1971, Communist International is a valuable contribution to the field of Politics.
Download or read book Mobilizing the Masses written by Odoric Y. K. Wou and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on recently acquired internal party documents, this study of the roots of revolution in the Chinese province of Henan describes in detail more than two decades of the efforts of the Communist Party to build mass support for revolution.
Download or read book Missionaries of Revolution written by Clarence Martin Wilbur and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s the Soviet Union made a determined effort to stimulate revolution in China, sending several scores of military and political advisers there, as well as arms and money to influence political developments. The usual secrecy surrounding Soviet foreign intervention was broken when the Chinese government seized a mass of documents in a raid on the Soviet military headquarters in Peking in 1927. 'Missionaries of Revolution' weaves together information gleaned from these documents with contemporary historical materials.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 2442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements written by James DeFronzo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With crucial insights and indispensable information concerning modern-day political upheavals, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements provides a representative cross section of the most significant revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This Fifth Edition is revised and updated with a new chapter on the Arab Revolution from its beginning in December 2010 to the present. In this widely used text, students can trace the historical development of eleven revolutions using a five-factor analytical framework. Author James DeFronzo clearly explains all relevant concepts and events, the roles of key leaders, and the interrelation of each revolutionary movement with international economic and political developments and conflicts, including World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror. Student resources include multiple orienting maps, summary and analysis sections, suggested readings, chronologies, and documentary resources.
Download or read book To the Masses written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 1309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates at world Communism’s 1921 congress reveal Lenin’s International at a moment of crisis. A policy of confrontational initiatives by a resolute minority contends with the perspective of winning majority working-class support on the road to the revolutionary conquest of power. A frank debate among many currents concludes with a classic formulation of Communist strategy and tactics. Thirty-two appendices, many never before published in any language, portray delegates’ behind-the-scenes exchanges. This newly translated treasure of 1,000 pages of source material, available for the first time in English, is supplemented by an analytic introduction, detailed footnotes, a glossary with 430 biographical entries, a chronology, and an index. The final instalment of a 4,500-page series on Communist congresses in Lenin’s time.
Download or read book 3 v Hearings held in Seattle Wash Portland Or San Francisco and Los Angeles written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolution Today written by Susan Buck-Morss and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2019-05-19 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, “progress = modernization through industrialization,” to which it has owed its political life? Socialism plus computer technology, citizen resistance plus a global agenda of concerns, revolutionary commitment to practices that are socially experimental and inclusive of difference—these are new forces being mobilized to make another future possible. Revolution Today celebrates the new political subjects that are organizing thousands of grass roots movements to fight racial and gender violence, state-led terrorism, and capitalist exploitation of people and the planet worldwide. The twenty-first century has already witnessed unprecedented popular mobilizations. Unencumbered by old dogmas, mobilizations of opposition are not only happening, they are gaining support and developing a global consciousness in the process. They are themselves a chain of signifiers, creating solidarity across language, religion, ethnicity, gender, and every other difference. Trans-local solidarities exist. They came first. The right-wing authoritarianism and anti-immigrant upsurge that has followed is a reaction against the amazing visual power of millions of citizens occupying public space in defiance of state power. We cannot know how to act politically without seeing others act. This book provides photographic evidence of that fact, while making us aware of how much of the new revolutionary vernacular we already share. Susan Buck-Morss is distinguished professor of political philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. Her work crosses disciplines, including art history, architecture, comparative literature, cultural studies, German studies, philosophy, history, and visual culture.
